Architecture, Urban Space and War The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo /

• Main Author: Ristic, Mirjana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Ethnology-Europe.; Sociology, Urban.; Cities and towns-History.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Cultural Heritage.; European Culture.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban History.; Urbanism.

This book investigates architectural and urban dimensions of the ethnic-nationalist conflict in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the siege of 1992-1995. Focusing on the wartime destruction of a portion of the cityscape in central Sarajevo and its post-war reconstruct...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Warscapes: Introduction
• 2. Cities, Nationalism and Conflict
• 3. Topography of Terror: Sniping and Shelling of Urban Space
• 4. Landscape of Ruins: Targeting Architecture
• 5. Resistance
• 6. Rebordering Sarajevo
• 7. Specter of War
• 8. Painful Memories and Parallel Histories
• 9. Lessons from Sarajevo.